Henry R. Evans
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Henry Ridgely Evans (1861-1949) was an American writer and amateur magician.[1]
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Biography
Evans worked in Baltimore, Maryland as a journalist and wrote books on conjurer tricks and magic. He has been described as a "great historian of the magic arts" and "an exemplary historian and biographer of magic".[2][3] He was a critic of spiritualism and theosophy and exposed the fraudulent tricks of mediums.[4]
Evans contributed to the book Magic Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, Including Trick Photography which received a positive review by the psychologist Joseph Jastrow.[5] Author William Lindsay Gresham described Evans book History of Conjuring and Magic (1928) as a "treasure house of data on magic, magicians, and productions."[6]
Correspondence with Harry Houdini
The magician Harry Houdini had originally planned to write a book known as History Makers in the World of Magic, however he gave up on this idea and handed over the material he had written to Evans who was also working on a similar book of his own. Houdini proposed that on the title page the book appeared "as originally planned by Harry Houdini & Henry R. Evans."[7] It is unclear if the book was ever published.[8]
Publications
Articles
- Some Magicians I Have Met. (1905). The Open Court. Vol. 19, Issue 8.
- Madame Blavatsky. (1904). The Monist. Vol. 14, No. 3. pp. 387–408.
- Cagliostro-A Study in Charlatanism. (1903). The Monist. Vol. 13, No. 4. pp. 523–552.
Books
- Some Rare Old Books on Conjuring and Magic (1943)
- Edgar Allan Poe and Baron von Kempelen's Chess-Playing Automaton (1939)
- A Master of Modern Magic: The Life and Adventures of Robert-Houdin (1932)
- Cagliostro: A Sorcerer of the Eighteenth Century (1931)
- History of Conjuring and Magic (1928)
- Adventures in Magic (1927)
- Cagliostro and His Egyptian Rite of Freemasonry (1919, 1930)
- The House of the Sphinx: A Novel (1907)
- The Old and the New Magic (1906)
- The Napoleon Myth (1905)
- The Spirit World Unmasked (1902)
- Magic and Its Professors (1902)
- Hours with the Ghosts, Or, Nineteenth Century Witchcraft (1897)
- Magic: Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, Including Trick Photography (1897)
- The Shorthand Clerk: A Manual of Practical Instruction (1880)
References
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- ↑ Robenalt, James D. (2004). Linking Rings: William W. Durbin and the Magic and Mystery of America. Kent State University Press. p. 19. ISBN 978-0873388085
- ↑ Pritchard, William Thomas. (1958). This is Magic: Secrets of the Conjurer's Craft. Citadel Press. p. 112
- ↑ Coleman, Earle Jerome.(1987). Magic: A Reference Guide. Greenwood Press. p. 20
- ↑ Fox, Irving P. (1898). The Spatula. The Spatula Publishing Company. p. 653
- ↑ Jastrow, Joseph. (1897). Magic Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, Including Trick Photography by Albert A. Hopkins; Henry Ridgely Evans. Science, New Series, Vol. 6, No. 153. pp. 850-851.
- ↑ Gresham, William Lindsay. (1959). Houdini: The Man who Walked Through Walls. Holt. p. 301
- ↑ Silverman, Kenneth. (1996). Houdini!: The Career of Ehrich Weiss. HarperCollins Publishers. p. 210
- ↑ Who Was Henry Ridgely Evans? Retrieved 2016-05-18.
External links
- Works by Henry R. Evans at Project Gutenberg
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